Technology Overview

The ever increasing growth of textual based information is driving a need for effective text information management and summarization tools. University of Waterloo researchers within the world renowned Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) lab have developed a Text Analytics Engine that extracts the most important concepts from natural text and can discriminate between non-important terms and terms which hold the concepts that represent the meaning of the text.

The methodology comprises a number of steps that utilize a natural language analysis approach whereby each sentence is broken down into phrases according to where verbs occur in the sentence. Natural language analysis is further used to identify the important and non-important terms in a sentence with respect to